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* Essa}^ on the various Modes of bringing 
Land into a State fit for Cultivation, and im- 
proving its Natural Produdlions/ 
The perusal of this paper has excited every 
risible facult}^ we possess. The author seems 
to have set every pradfical experiment at de- 
fiance’. To follow him through the 74 pages 
of this extraordinary work, and to point out 
all the inconsistencies and absurdities he has 
advanced, and to compare them with the 
rules of the plain pradlical husbandry of 
Great Britain, would occasion a work of 
much more extent than the whole of the 
communications now under review. 
The schemes recommended by Mr. Head- 
rick may be calculated for some distant re- 
gion, explored alone by himself, where ma- 
nual labour may be obtained wdthout ex- 
pence, and where marie, clay, lime, and, in 
short, every species of manure or alterative 
will flow in, and deposit itself upon the land 
intended to be cultivated, at his will and 
pleasure. 
We cannot refrain from observing, in this 
